Anyone else notice that brands (which are usually highly reknown) like yamaha, sony, Pioneer, etc. are actually stuping to new lows, like the old 100 watts equal power output? Ok, that is a broad statement that can be taken a number of ways. 100 x 2 @ one time or 1 at a time, etc. It really bothers me especially that Yammi is even doing it now with their HTR series recevers and so forth. I have been through home audio's up's and downs for many years and like most of you, have owned way to much equipment over the years to even mention, but even in the cheap brands, never has the industry stooped to such a car audio type low as this. We all know car audio can also be very high quality, but it's 90% hype and BS, ya know, big numbers make young dumb kids and even some adults think WOW I have a 1200 watt system, and it only cost me 200 bucks at wal-mart, but yet jim-bob down the street has a 150 watt old school yamaha amplifier pushing a 10" cerwin vega woofer and it wipes mine's a$$. Needless to say, this really is an outrage to me seeing as how I always prided myself on the higher quality of home audio components and the lack of bull. Now even they are doing it, I suppose it was the launch of HT systems and people thinking that big number are better, but nevertheless, this is not a good direction for the industry to go in. Any views on this and why the heck they are getting so cheesy about power ratings?